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TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: Microsoft Security Bulletins for Patch
Tuesday, December 2014 Released

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- --Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit | Washington, DC | Feb 2-9, 2015 |
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Title: Microsoft Security Bulletins for Patch Tuesday, December 2014 Released
Description: Microsoft has released seven new security bulletins,
addressing 24 different CVEs for this month. Three bulletins are rated
"Critical" while four are rated "Important".
Reference:https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms14-dec
Snort SID: 32507, 32679-32705, 32707-32714 and 32718-32725

Title: Adobe Releases Patches for Adobe Flash Player
Description: Adobe has released a Security Bulletin to address
vulnerabilities in Flash Player that are currently being exploited.
This update is designed to address CVE-2014-0580, CVE-2014-0587,
CVE-2014-8443, CVE-2014-9162, CVE-2014-9163, and CVE-2014-9164.
Reference:http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-27.html
Snort SID: Detection pending the release of vulnerability information

This is a list of recent vulnerabilities for which exploits are
available. System administrators can use this list to help in
prioritization of their remediation activities. The Qualys Vulnerability
Research Team compiles this information based on various exploit
frameworks, exploit databases, exploit kits and monitoring of internet
activity.

ID: CVE-2014-7169
Title: Multiple Vendor Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multiple Vendors
Description: GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings
after certain malformed function definitions in the values of
environment variables, which allows remote attackers to write to files
or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted environment, as
demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH
sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server,
scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other situations in
which setting the environment occurs across a privilege boundary from
Bash execution. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete
fix for CVE-2014-6271.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2014-6271
Title: Multiple Vendor Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multiple Vendors
Description: GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after
function definitions in the values of environment variables, which
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted
environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand
feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache
HTTP Server, scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other
situations in which setting the environment occurs across a privilege
boundary from Bash execution, aka "ShellShock." NOTE: the original fix
for this issue was incorrect; CVE-2014-7169 has been assigned to cover
the vulnerability that is still present after the incorrect fix.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

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